It’s late Monday afternoon. I have a headache. At least my innards have stopped their cement mixer impressions.<\/p>\n
Anyway, to the subject of this posting, the weekend…
Friday
\nevening I travelled down to Yateley, near Farnborough, Hants to visit Rachel,
\nGraham and not so little anymore, Christopher. When I arrived, Rachel was
\ncoming down with a cold, Christopher was going up to bed, Graham was helping
\nand the little cat from down the road was making herself at home.<\/p>\n
Rachel
\ndidn’t last being awake much longer, even after the big chinese takeaway
\nGraham went off and ordered. It had been an eventful day in the Hartland
\nhousehold.<\/p>\n
Saturday started ok, though Rachel was in no state to think
\nand was very surprised when I entered the kitchen. After getting her bearings
\nand being told by Graham, “Steve.. Friend.” slowly she calmed down. Tea and
\nbreakfast brought the brain in gear. Following breakfast was a period of
\nlegoing and thence into Hook to deliver 7 boxes of old books and a box of
\nICL mugs to any charity shop we could find to take them.. which luckily was
\nthe first we asked. The return journey was taken via the Hartley Wintney
\nRecycle Centre where Graham called me over to the place where the electronic
\nstuf was placed…<\/p>\n
Sitting there was a PC.. it looked in decent nick..
\nit had cables and manuals and driver disks.. it had a TV\/Radio\/Video cardand
\n40x CDROM in it.. The maximum charge for taking stuff from teh tip was \u00a35..
\nI paid \u00a35 and took the PC, manuals and drivers away! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Later excitement
\nincluded a hour playing cricket in the park before dinner and then lazing
\nin front of the telly looking at the last night of the proms and being texted
\nby Alec, who was at the London Prom in the Park. Oh, and I tried to install
\nthe DVD player software which came with Shrek only to find out that the DVD
\nplayer software needed another DVD player software installed on the machine
\nbefore it would work.. eh? Oh well. I did find a shareware DVD player which
\ndidn’t work itself but did install enough of the right things for the one
\non the Shrek DVD to work. Still, the 333MHz Celeron in their machine is still
\nnot fast enough to give a nice smooth display but it is watchable.<\/p>\n
Sunday
\narose with me having a few stomach spasms,, I knew what was coming later
\nbut decided that it wasn’t going to ruin my stay, so I ignored it. After
\nrising after Graham, Rachel & Chris had gone to the church, I set up
\nthe PC to connect to my camera so as to upload the pictures I’d taken the
\nday before up to the PC. After lunch is was generally playing with lego,
\nGraham playing with my camera (‘cos his interest in digital photography had
\nbeen sparked by Bob’s Olympus but he wasn’t prepared to spend \u00a31500). Later
\ncame showing all my photos before journeying off to Alec’s for pancakes followed
\nby basket ball without the basket.<\/p>\n
By the time I got home, at about
\n8pm, my insides were not very happy at all.. to cut a long story short, after
\ngoing to bed and failing to sleep I got up and started testing the bits of
\nthat old PC I’d picked up for \u00a35. Everything but the power supply and the
\nhard disk worked.. so it was a bit of a bargin. The TV tuner\/Radio card is
\nnow in my main PC. It works under Windows and by the tiem I’d gone back to
\nbed I’d got it working under Linux too.<\/p>\n
This morning I couldn’t get up ’til 9:30am, so I wandered into work as best I could, getting in before 11am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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